International law is designed to govern the behaviour of states and individuals who act in the name of those states.…
On 15 December 2014, Denmark submitted a territorial claim to the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental…
Claims of the six governments involved in the long standing dispute in the South China Sea have not only managed…
On March 6, 2014, the Parliament of Crimea adopted a Resolution No.1702-6/14 that provided for a secession referendum to be…
On 15 February 2012, two Italian marines on board an Italian-flagged vessel, the MV Enrica Lexie allegedly shot and killed two…
On 31st of March 2014, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered a landmark judgement in the case involving Australia,…
The spread of violence and political instability in Ukraine over the past several months, and the consequent political transformation in…
In his famous New York Times opinion piece last year, Russian President Vladimir Putin described rather elegantly the foreign policy…
According to press reports, a senior Russian military spokesperson has announced that Russia may invoke force majeure clauses in arms…
In the beginning of March this year the topic of secession and self-determination in international law became once more topical.…